01x32 - Not So Splash/By The Book

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Odd Squad". Aired: November 26, 2014 – July 8, 2022.*
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Series follows the exploits of Odd Squad, an organization run entirely by children, that solves peculiar problems using math skills.
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01x32 - Not So Splash/By The Book

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- Coming up next on Odd Squad... - Something very odd has happened to my friend's pool.

- (Olive): It shouldn't be cold and snowy in the summer.

- I need you to fix it so I can swim, or else I will get

very grumpy.

- Please hurry.

- My name is Agent Olive.

This is my partner, Agent Otto.

This is Ms. O's happy face.

But back to Otto and me.

We work for an organization run by kids that investigates

anything strange, weird,

and, especially, odd. Our job is to put things right again.

(theme music)

- Squishinating!

- Who do we work for? We work for Odd Squad.

- What seems to be the problem, sir?

- Thanks for coming, Odd Squad. I'm thinking of changing jobs.

I mean, I've been a professional dancer my whole life,

but my heart is telling me...

I think I want to work in a bank!

- Do you have any experience with the bank?

- None. Nothing. No.

- Um, I think it's a risk,

but I think it's one worth taking.

- Yeah, you guys are right.

Thanks, guys!

- Do you also have an odd problem? - Oh, yeah! Yeah. Uh...

Every time I open my fridge it does this...

(noisemaker blowing)

(dance music playing) - (laughing): Fun!

- Well try getting a glass of milk in the middle of the night.

- Hmm... Time for the party pooper gadget.

(dinging)

(whirring) (sad trombone)

- Wow! Thanks, Odd Squad!

- Have a wonderful day. - I will.

- Well, can finally enjoy an ice-cold,

delicious-- (noisemaker blowing)

(dance music playing) - Hey, is this still good to drink?

(roaring)

- There you two are!

- Aw, man! is it wear your bathing suit to work day? - No.

- Then why are you wearing-- - When I'm not working,

I like to do one thing: swim.

It takes me to a happy place.

(easy listening music playing)

- I don't know what's happening.

- Um, Ms. O...

- Something very odd has happened to my friend's pool.

I need you to fix it so I can swim,

or else I will get very grumpy.

- Was that you being not grumpy?

Oh, no...

(Olive and Otto gasping)

- Go, go, go, go! - Come on, come on, come on!

(trumppeting)

So that's why she can't swim. - Whoa!

- This is definitely odd. It shouldn't be cold and snowy

in the summer - it should be hot!

We should figure out how cold it its. - Good plan.

(shivering loudly)

It's cool, it's, uh, chilly, it's breezy--

- Now, hold up, partner. If we're measuring temperature,

we're going to measure it the right way: with thermometers.

The higher the red line goes, the hotter it is. Over here,

we're at degrees Fahrenheit. Phew... Really hot.

- And over here, the line is way lower.

It only goes up to degrees - cold!

- That's why everything over there is frozen.

Water freezes when the temperature is below

degrees, and is definitely below .

( Odd Squad theme ring tone) - Gopher Olive.

- It's me, Oscar. Did you fix the pool yet?

- Uh, we're getting closer.

- Ms. O really needs to swim.

I told her to take a drink of water to help her relax, but...

- (Ms. O): OSCAR! - ...she didn't like that.

- I got it, I got it.

- Please hurry. - OSCAR?

- But who would want to change the weather?

(gasping) - The weatherman!

- A cat! - Did you say "cat"?

- No... I said the weatherman.

- Let's go.

- (both): Odd Squad! Odd Squad! Stop right there, weatherman!

- Whoa, whoa, guys! I'm not the weatherman!

I'm Frank Tudesco, sports.

- (gasping): It's true! I watch your sports recaps every night!

- (in Norwegian accent): And I'm Sven Jorgensen! - Of course!

- I was just interviewing Sven about how much he loves skiing and skating.

- I do, I love them! Ha ha!

- We need to see the weather guy.

- He's changing the weather in town and we need to see him.

- This is studio two. You want studio nine.

- Thanks.

- So, Sven,

you were telling me how much you love skiing and skating.

- I do, I love them! Ha ha!

- And that's your sports minute

with Frank Tudesco. Good night.

- No...

Oh, excuse me, do you know where studio nine is?

- Yeah, you just go down this hallway and make a right?

Actually, I could just walk you there.

- Oh! That would be great. Thanks!

- Uh, we're kind of in a rush. Do you mind if we run?

- Oh... Sure.

- So we have some sunshine coming our way this week,

a little bit of rain, but don't forget,

after all, we are having a wonderful---

- (all three): Odd Squad! Odd Squad! Stop right there, weatherman!

- You know what, I'm kind of busy. Is it OK if I go?

- Sure. It was really nice meeting you.

- Thank you so much for your help.

We know you've been changing the weather, Weatherman -

if that is even your name!

- One, that is my real name, but two,

I did not do it!

- (together): Aw, man! Really?

- I'm just as upset as you are. I've been getting reports

from all over town about things turning cold!

- We just thought it was Ms. O's friend's pool.

- No, it's much bigger than that. Look!

- All the blue areas are degrees.

That is way too cold

for summer, but look how high

this red line goes!

The rest of the town has summer weather.

- Why are some areas turning cold and some not?

(grunting) - I think we need to pay a visit to the Mathroom.

(ticking) (whirring)

- You caught that on tape, right?

So it's not just me? OK, OK.

(whirring)

- (both): Oh... Hi, Orchid!

- You guys ever hear of knocking before going into the Mathroom?

- We didn't know you were in here. - Sorry.

- It's OK. I'm almost finished.

Mathroom, run the numbers one more time, please.

- Generating numbers.

- Of course! It all makes sense now.

- Olive, here's a letter.

Give it to my brother if I don't make it back.

What am I talking about? Of course I'm going to make it back!

- I'm Orchid! I'm awesome!

(ticking) (whirring)

- OK, um, back to the...

- Yeah... - Yup. Ahem...

- Mathroom, show us the weather map of the town.

- Generating image.

- Now only show us the places that are cold.

- Generating.

- Weird! The only cold places

are hills and anything that has to do with water.

- Yeah. Sven must be happy.

- Who? - Winter sports guy?

- Oh. - Water freezes when the temperature is below

degrees, and all of these places are degrees.

- If all the water and hills are frozen with ice and snow,

Sven can ice skate or ski whenever he wants.

- I think you're onto something, partner.

Mathroom, bring up a profile of Sven Jorgensen.

- Sven Jorgensen: championship skater,

championship skier, part-time inventor.

- Inventor! He must have invented something

to change the weather. Let's go.

(ticking) (whirring)

(chirping)

- Ah...

Oh, I love snow, I do! I love it!

Oh!

- Hello, Sven. - Odd Squad! Uh...

Isn't all the snow in the middle of the summertime horrible?

Boo! - We know you've been changing the temperature, Sven,

keeping it less than degrees so everything freezes.

- (sighing): Nicely done, Odd Squad.

But you'll never find my temperature-changing machine. Ha ha!

- Oh, well look at the snowflake on the ground!

- Ooh! Ah! Oh, no...

How did you... - It's the only reason you'd wear a hat like this.

- Ugh... - So why did you do it, Sven?

- I hate waiting to do my winter sports all summer.

I want to ski and skate

and snow angel make. Oh, boo!

- Well, you can't anymore.

- But you forget, I'm a part-time inventor, and I'll

just part-time invent another gadget again!

Ha ha! You'll never catch Sven!

- (Olive): Wait right there, Sven!

- (Otto): AHH! (honking)

(Sven cackling)

- Oh, man! This guy's, like, Olympic-level fast! - Gold medal!

(agents breathing heavily)

He's getting away!

- Ha ha! I am! Ha ha!

- No, he's not. Water freezes

when the temperature goes below degrees, remember?

(cackling)

And it just so happens, Sven is about to run through a puddle.

degrees will put him on ice! (whirring)

- Oh, boo-hoo! - Nice work, partner.

( Odd Squad theme ring tone)

- Oscar, we fixed the temperature problem.

Ms. O can go swimming again. - [Thanks.]

But Ms. O couldn't wait any longer. She flooded Headquarters.

(sound of running water)

(easy listening music playing) - WHEE!

- Ms. O flooded Headquarters. - What?

We've got to get our swimsuits.

Come on! - Yes!

♪♪♪

(roaring)

- Greetings, agents!

This is a clock head lady.

She can be your best friend,

or the most annoying person on earth.

Stop it. Stop it!

The easiest way to get her to be your friend is to tell her what time it is,

which is easy, because it's on her head.

The small hand tells you what the hours are and the long hand tells you what the minutes are.

There are minutes in each hour,

so when you count the minutes, each number

represents minutes.

So that's , ,

, , , ,

, , ,

, , minutes,

except when you get back to the , you don't say "", you say "o'clock".

So right now, it is :, ,

, , minutes.

:! Heh...

Before you leave, ask the clock head lady to dance.

Clock head ladies know many dances, like this one...

- ♪♪ Take away one, gonna add one ♪

- This one... - ♪ Gonna add one ♪

- And this one... - ♪ Take away one, gonna add one ♪

- But my favourite is this one. - ♪ Back to me ♪

♪ Back, back, back, back to me ♪

♪ Take away one, gonna add one ♪

- Stop it! Stop it! I thought we were friends!

- ♪ Take away one, gonna add one ♪

♪ Take away one ♪♪

- Alright, Goopy Gus, Filthy Paul-- - There you are! Something very odd ha

- It's Gooey Randall. - Really? Where did I get Paul?

- You know, you'd be surprised how often I get that.

- You know, sometimes-- - Partner; get back on track.

- Alright, Gooey Randall, Goopy Gus,

let's go over the evidence.

- Exhibit A;

City Hall covered in goop.

- It's beautiful. - Exhibit B:

there are only two loons in town that cover things in goop,

and that's you and you.

Exhibit : the lady that works at City Hall.

- Do you guys live here?

- Sorry. Um...

I saw that it was one person that did it,

but I couldn't really see who it was, um,

because I was, uh, you know, covered in goop.

- Thank you, Ma'am.

- So, in conclusion, we know one of you did it.

- (both): Wasn't me. - Fine. We'll do it the hard way.

- We'll stay here all night if we have to,

until one of you admits it!

- Hey, hold on a second, we know our rights.

You can only hold us for minutes before you have to let us go.

- minutes? That can't be right.

- Goopy Gus is right; you have to do this one by the book.

It's all right here... In the book.

- "Odd Squad rules state you can only question someone

"for minutes. If you can't prove they caused oddness,

you have to let them go."

- You guys don't have much time. See that clock?

The little hand is pointing to the ;

that means hour. And the long hand is pointing to the ;

that means it's the beginning of the hour,

so minutes,

which makes the time right now exactly o'clock.

- What about the red hand? - That keeps track of seconds,

but don't worry about that right now.

- So, if we only have minutes, that means we only have until the minute hand

gets to the . - ?

I thought we had minutes.

- When you're counting minutes, each number

stands for minutes. So that's

, , ,

minutes. :.

- Do I have to remind you guys how much time you're wasting talking about time?

- You're right. Otto, let's split up.

I'll go see if Owen has any security footage of City Hall.

You keep an eye on these guys.

- Don't forget: play by the rules.

- Seriously, Ms. O?

- I'm more serious than anything

you could ever seriously think of.

- Global warming. - Touché.

(sighing)

- Owen, quick! I need you to show me City Hall

when it got covered in goo. - Let's see what we got here.

(whirring) Boom!

Point of contact! - That's it!

Can you get any closer to the image? - Sure thing!

- Oh, I meant can you make the image bigger.

- Yeah. (whirring)

- Ugh, I can't see his face,

All I can see is that he's gooping up City Hall with his left hand.

( Odd Squad theme ring tone)

- Gopher Olive. - What's going on? - [Bad news.]

I can't tell who it is. Any luck on your end?

- Well, apparently, at the -minute mark

I have to have a staring contest with them. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love

[a good staring contest--] - Hang on a sec, Otto.

There's somebody else in the picture!

Can you get any closer? ...Can you zoom in?

(whirring) That's Delivery Debbie!

She's painting a picture.

Maybe her painting can tell me who did it! Hang tight, partner.

- Let's do this.

- Aww... - The jig is up!

Gooey Randall already told me it was you.

Just confess and we'll go easy on you.

- No he didn't. Gooey Randall's been sitting right here beside me the entire time.

- Yeah, I would never sell him out! It goes against every rule in the book!

- Really? - Not your rulebook,

our rulebook.

- Otto, how are those smoothies coming along?

- Smoothies? What smoothies?

- The rulebook clearly states that suspects

get smoothies halfway through their minutes.

- Yeah, and if I don't get a smoothie, I'm leaving.

Probably to go to the store to get a smoothie.

I have to go to the bank first to get some cash, and of course I want to go to my branch,

'cause other branches cash machines charge me fees. The point is, I'm out of here.

- Quick, Ms. O, what's half of :? - Half of is ,

so they get their smoothies at :,

when the big hand points to the .

- But that's in minute!

- Where am I supposed to get a smoothie in minute?

- I guess we're leaving. - Not so fast!

(squeezing)

There's nothing in the rule book that says they have to be good.

Now take these.

And enjoy your smoothies.

- Debbie! Hey! Hey. - Oh, hey!

- Debbie... (panting)

You were painting City Hall when it got gooped, right?

- Yeah. - I think your artwork might be the key to solving my case.

- Well, you're in luck! (clearing throat)

- What is that?

- City Hall...

- Oh...

- To be fair, I've only been taking art classes for a week.

- Did you see the guy who covered it in goop?

- Definitely. Look at this!

- That white smudge with two blue dots on it?

- That's a face. How are you not seeing that? (cell phone ringing)

- Gopher Olive.

- How's it going? - [Sorry, Partner.]

I got nothing so far. How are things on your end?

- Well, I just had to take them trick-or-treating around Headquarters.

It's not even Halloween yet!

I feel like I put way more effort into this than you.

You know? - BOO!

- This rulebook is really odd. - [I'll keep trying.]

- OK, well maybe this guy can help...

- Who am I looking at? - Come on, that's Janitor Jerry!

Serious, how are you not seeing that?

- Can I take this painting with me?

- I guess what you're saying is I have some real talent?

- Yes, absolutely! Gotta run... - OK!

- OK, we had the staring contest,

you had your spa treatment, and now you're sitting

in the best chairs in Odd Squad Headquarters.

- No way. Not comfy.

We're out of here. - Gone.

- What do you mean, they're not comfy?

- Please! - Not that comfy. - Where are you going?

- Whoa! Well, the rules clearly say

"comfortable chairs", and those chairs

are not comfortable. - They're not comfortable.

- My back is k*lling me! - His back is k*lling him.

- On behalf of Odd Squad,

I'm sorry for the way you've been treated. I do hope your back feels better.

- Well finally, it's nice to see someone with some manners around here.

(bones cracking) - WHOA! OH!

Zeus's beard! OW!

- How's your back now? - My back?

Feels wonderful! You fixed it!

- Great! Now sit down.

- OK, we'll sit down. But we're not gonna like it!

- Oh, no! It's..., , !

:! There's only minutes left!

- Olive better come back with something good,

'cause this investigation is going nowhere.

- Do you guys have any Brie? - Brie? I love Brie.

- Like, Brie cheese? - With some crackers.

- Uh...it's good.

- I saw the whole thing. - Great! Can you describe what happened?

- Well, there I was, minding my own business,

when I saw somebody drop a potato chip bag,

a candy wrapper and a banana peel.

- Uh, OK... So our thief is a litterbug.

Are there any other details you can give me?

- The banana peel was bruised, which means he didn't take care of his fruit.

- Do you know what he looked like?

- No. But I can say I'm glad to see

Odd Squad is finally cracking down on litterbugs.

(groaning)

- Hey, don't forget to recycle! - Ugh...

- Ah! It's coming up on :.

When that happens, you've only got seconds

before you gotta cut us loose. - Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Hold your horses. Why are you talking about seconds when I still got a minute?

- Who told you about my horses?

- Don't answer that! He's trying to stall for time.

- But I have to-- - We've only got a minute.

There are seconds in a minute.

Remember that little red hand I told you not to worry about?

Well, now's the time to worry about it. - NO!

- Once it reaches the , we've only got one minute -

or seconds - before it goes all the way around

and comes back to the again. And then these guys are free to go!

- Olive, you're back! Which one of them did it?

- I have nothing. - (together): What?

(laughing) - All I found out

is that we're looking for a left-handed litterbug who looks something like this.

- You just solved the case! - I did? - She did?

- And it can all be explained in a flashback.

- You've got seconds. Go!

- (Otto): When Ms. O handed the smoothies to the suspects,

only one of them took it with their left hand.

And then, when they got back from trick or treating,

only one of them littered candy wrappers all over the floor.

And when we had

the staring contest, only one of them had blue eyes.

- (all): Goopy Gus!

- Busted! And you figured it out in time.

Right at :.

I gotta fix it. ...It's in the villain rulebook.

- Great work, Agent Olive, Agent Otto.

- Hey, I'll see you around, Randall. That's...gooey.

- Gooey Randall, on behalf of Odd Squad,

I'm sorry for the inconvenience of the last minutes.

- (choking up): Are you kidding me?

The last minutes have been the best of my life.

Staring contests,

trick or treating, massage chairs!

I am thinking about going out right now to commit an odd crime just so I can get

back in here. It was glorious!

(squelching) - Maybe we should think about

rewriting that rulebook... - Yeah... Definitely.

- Yeah, I do not want to do that again.

- I joined because the Earth

should be round, not square.

- I joined because sandwiches

should be tasty, not sandy.

- I joined, because nobody

should be able to make this noise:

(screeching mechanical sound)

- We are... - We are... - We are...

- We are Odd Squad.

Since the beginning of time -

and we're talking way back -

we've been fighting odd.

In our spare time, we also like to draw pictures of ourselves.

We really like this one.

- There's no case too big,

no case too small,

at Odd Squad,

we do it all.

And yes, that is flying broccoli.

- My name is Ms. O. I run every department here at Odd Squad, Join Odd Squad at pbskids.org and

Some people call me "the boss", and I like that.

Before I became head honcho, I was an agent myself.

What's the haps?

But that doesn't mean the big chieferoni doesn't help out with cases

every once in a while. Hi-YA!

Ms. O don't play that! What you might not

know about me is...I like juice boxes.

(slurping)

I need a juice! - OK, maybe you did

know that about me, but did you know

this juice box on my desk is actually a phone?

(ringing) Hello?

Sorry, I can't hear you, I'm on my juice phone.

Call me on my regular phone. Thanks.

(phone ringing)

Hello?

Yes, I'd like to place a juice box order.

(electronic music playing)

(buzzing)

(babbling in alien language)

(theme music playing)
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